The Tories haplessly failed to win two parliamentary by-elections; some of their donors and a few backbench MPs began to mutiny, and Mr Brown readied his party for another, early, election.

不幸的是，托利党还是没有赢得两次议会的补选；一些捐款人和后座议员开始反抗，但是布朗的党派已经准备进行第二场提前选举。

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Microsoft has certainly contributed to its own public relations woes, sometimes haplessly, sometimes senselessly.

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Yet her haplessly obscure corner of the planet becomes as central to our common existence as a street in Paris or New York.

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Dr. House makes a brilliant diagnosis, then single-handedly intervenes to save the patient, often shooing away bureaucrats and the rare nurses haplessly getting in his way.

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